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Big Bend and Florida news briefs

TLH
Published 11:41 p.m. ET May 20, 2014

Adanna Carroll, 10, runs in the surf with her inflatable Orca on Tuesday at Jacksonville Beach.
(Photo:
Bruce Lipsky/AP
)

Florida State football players Chris Casher and Ronald Darby have met with a university discipline board after being charged with violations of the school’s Code of Conduct.

The two faced charges Tuesday after they told police they witnessed sex between quarterback Jameis Winston and a woman who accused him of raping her in December 2012. Casher told police that he videotaped a portion of the incident, but deleted the footage.

Winston’s accuser testified at the hearing.

The conduct board has 10 days to make a recommendation to the Dean of Students.

Casher made a statement, apologizing to the accuser and said, “I honestly did not believe that any of us had broken the law or done anything wrong.”

Winston was not called to testify Tuesday and was never charged with a crime.

Fla. woman pleads guilty to fake-anthrax letters

JACKSONVILLE – A Florida woman has pleaded guilty to mailing fake-anthrax letters to the offices of U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Jacksonville said Monday in a news release that 47-year-old Kathryn Cohen Allen pleaded guilty last week. She faces up to 10 years in prison.

According to the release, Allen admitted mailing letters containing a non-hazardous, white, powdery substance to the senators’ offices in June 2011.

Allen told authorities she sent the letters to frame her neighbor, a black man whom court records show she had been harassing for several months with accusations that he was sleeping with a married white woman.

Man’s wife, daughter convicted in his murder

PANAMA CITY – A Florida Panhandle man’s wife and daughter have taken plea deals for their parts in the man’s murder.

As part of a deal with Bay County prosecutors, 63-year-old Lottie Jean Moore and 27-year-old Mary Elizabeth Clanton pleaded no contest Monday to being accessories after the fact to first-degree murder. Moore received seven years in prison, while Clanton received three.

Clanton’s husband, 33-year-old David Clanton, is scheduled to be tried for first-degree murder in October.